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Jump to full article: Jamaica Gleaner (jm), 2010-02-12
Author: DR KNOX HAGLEY Chairman Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control
Intro: THE EDITOR, Sir:
Smoking has been recognised as a serious medical problem and, in the last 40 years, has been linked irrefutably to many serious diseases of various tissues, including cancer, heart disease, gangrene of lower limbs, stroke and lung disease. Cigarette smoking also increases the complications of diabetes and hypertension.
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Reports of studies undertaken in communities in various countries, in which a ban on public smoking was instituted, revealed a marked reduction in the incidence of, and deaths from, heart attacks. So let us help to improve the health of smokers and non-smokers in our community by introducing a ban on cigarette smoking in public places.
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